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NextTape

Posted by
The Daves
on April 16, 2014

We get the "what adhesive would you suggest" question all the time. We offer two very nice alternatives - our FoamFast spray and our NextTape double stick tabs. Regarding the NextTape....You always have to keep in mind that you're working with double stick tabs. Unlike the spray adhesive that allows you to apply it over much of the panel, with the tabs, you have to place them over the panel to evenly hold it up. But tape is only as good as how clean the surface that it's mounted on and how it's applied. So...

NextTAPE
Advice

Some of our personal NextTape experiences:

1. It does stick great to anything with a surface
that you think Scotch Tape would stick to permanently.

2. Upon further questioning, the lesser reviews are NOT due to
it’s sticking ability. The #1 frustration is peeling the second
backing off of the raw NextTape. Until you get the hang of it, it
does really piss you off…the tape sticks well to everything….including it’s own
backing. We have found it is best if you first remove the initial side.
Place the NextTape on the Foam panel, present it very solidly into the foam
(“gel” of the foam is imbedded into small foam air cavitites). THEN, do
NOT try to remove the other side of the tape RIGHT Away…waiting 15 to 30
seconds seems to make it much easier to skim away the second backing down to
the sticky NextTape….then press the foam panel in place and do NOT worry about
pressing to hard thru the foam where the adhesive attaches to the wall (or
canvas). Other additional investigation has revealed that the other
main complaint is trying to use it with uneven or “unclean” surfaces.
As an example, it does NOT work very well with unpainted drywall…it is a
surface that is not “clean” and should likely be at least primed before using NextTape. Beyond those two reasons, we have no complaints.

On the CornerBox, cutting a
pack of 24 NextTape in two = 48 – 1’x 1’ pieces, that allows 12 pieces per
CornerBlox = 6 pieces per flat back side (2 back sides per CornerBlox if placed
in a corner junction).